The Boston Globe

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News about The Boston Globe, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 16, 2014

Boston Globe cautiously celebrates its Pulitzer win for its reporting on city's marathon bombing in 2013; muted ceremony reflects broader mood in Globe's newsroom that, after years of layoffs, pay cuts and reduced coverage, staff can also celebrate resiliency of New England's largest paper; optimism is due to new owner, John W Henry, who has invested heavily in the Globe. MORE

Oct. 25, 2013

New York Times Company completes the sale of the New England Media Group, which includes The Boston Globe, to John W Henry after a Massachusetts judge lifts an injunction that had temporarily halted the sale. MORE

Aug. 11, 2013

Sales of three giants of the old-media world--The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Newsweek--were at prices a fraction of the properties' former value; Tumblr's $1.1 billion sale suggests market believes that its model is way of the future. MORE

Aug. 5, 2013

Deals to buy The Washington Post and The Boston Globe have been announced this week by very wealthy entrepreneurs. MORE

Aug. 5, 2013

New York Times Company's sale of Boston Globe to Boston Red Sox owner John W Henry, along with The Worchester Telegram & Gazette and other properties, continues trend in struggling industry of newspapers being returned to local owners, often at bargain-basement prices. MORE

Aug. 4, 2013

New York Times Company sells The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to Boston Red Sox owner John W Henry for $70 million; sale is latest move by Times to shed assets and focus on core brand; price is large drop in value of Globe, which was purchased in 1993 for $1.1 billion. MORE

Aug. 4, 2013

Sports journalists at The Boston Globe fear a conflict of interest with the purchase of the newspaper by Boston Red Sox owner John Henry. MORE

Jan. 21, 2013

Boston Globe, flush with empty office space following extensive downsizing, has created a large public community space for start-up companies, musicians and special events; other downsized newspapers have made creative use of empty space, though potential revenue of projects remains unclear. MORE

Jul. 13, 2012

Obama campaign seizes on a Boston Globe report about Securities and Exchange Commission documents showing that Mitt Romney was listed as the chief executive, president and owner of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2002, contradicting Romney's assertion that he left the firm in 1999; finding shores up Obama campaign's argument that Romney was still at Bain's helm when some of its companies moved workers overseas; definitive proof of Romney’s activities remains elusive, leading to another day of bitter charges and countercharges from the two campaigns. MORE

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A Massachusetts district attorney plans to bring state murder charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been sentenced to death in a federal trial for a deadly bomb attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon, her office said on Saturday.

July 11, 2015, Saturday

The wife of a man killed by police on Thursday said she told authorities there were no real firearms in her home before two officers shot him to death. Prosecutors said the man had pointed a realistic-looking BB gun at the officers before they opened...

June 30, 2015, Tuesday

Long-time Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger told a group of Massachusetts high school students who had written to ask him questions for a research project that his "life was wasted and spent foolishly," the Boston Globe reported.